Designing your image
Assume you have been tasked with the creation of a playground item/activity. What form might it take?
I would create a game using a new platform called a Siftables. Siftables are amazing little (4 x 4 cm.) computerized blocks. They have a graphical display, can communicate wirelessly, sense their orientation and proximity to other blocks, and respond to movement. They can interact with digital information and media in different networks within blue tooth range.
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In your opinion, how would you define creativity? What is it? How do you define the creative from the not creative? What’s the difference that makes the difference?
Creativity is a quality that defines us a humans being; it is our ability to create new solutions for problems we come up against. It is the ability
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The question for the first assignment is: Document in words and images a craze that you identify. You might have a positive or negative reaction to it. Try and suggest why you think it was popular and what was the core play activity that engaged children so much.
Since I launched this web site in 2008 some significant changes have taken place in my work situation. Most importantly is that presently I am primarily a part-time lecturer of media design at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. At the same I am doing something that I have wanted to do for a long time, an MA. Practically speaking I will be using this blog as part of my Masters activities for the time being, less interesting for the “public domain” but hopefully of interest to my fellow students and of course to my course leader, Jim Thompson.
So to kick that off: This is the first post as part of the MA Games Design